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A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform is the 1983 report of the United States National Commission on Excellence in Education.Its publication is considered a landmark event in modern American educational history.
February 24, 1983: A special commission of the Congress released a report critical of the practice of Japanese internment during World War II. March 23, 1983: President Ronald Reagan made his Strategic Defense Initiative proposal. April 18, 1983: U.S. Embassy bombed in Beirut, killing 63 people.
The Private Sector Survey on Cost Control (PSSCC), commonly referred to as the Grace Commission, was an investigation requested by United States President Ronald Reagan, authorized in Executive Order 12369 on June 30, 1982. In doing so President Reagan used the now famous phrase, "Drain the swamp". [1]
In 1983, The New York Times published an article that cited a passage from the "Pursuit of Excellence: Education and the Future of America" by the Rockefeller Brothers' Fund's panel, "America at Mid-Century." [3] The "excellence" movement of the mid-1980s, was inspired by the landmark report, "A Nation at Risk. [4] [5]
In March 1983, President Reagan began issuing warnings about the danger to the United States and Caribbean nations if the Soviet-Cuban militarization of that region was allowed to proceed. He pointed to the excessively long airport runway being built and referenced intelligence reports showing increased Soviet interest in the island.
In a ceremony on the South Lawn, President Reagan signs a bill to avert Social Security insolvency in 1983. Looking on are a range of figures, including Alan Greenspan, far left, Senator Robert ...
February 22, 1983 122 12408 Reports on international organizations February 23, 1983 123 12409 Nuclear cooperation with EURATOM March 7, 1983 124 12410 Exclusions from the Federal Labor-Management Relations Program March 28, 1983 125 12411 Government work space management reforms March 29, 1983 126 12412 Peace Corps Advisory Council March 29, 1983
The National Commission on Social Security Reform, also known as the Greenspan Commission due to its chairmanship by Alan Greenspan, was a commission that was appointed by the United States Congress and President Ronald Reagan in 1981 to study and make recommendations regarding the short-term financing crisis that Social Security faced at that time. [1]